Repeats and subrepeats in the intergenic spacer of rDNA from the nematode Meloidogyne arenaria |
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Authors: | Haleh Vahidi and Barry M Honda |
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Institution: | (1) Dept. of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, V5A 1S6 Burnaby, B.C., Canada |
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Abstract: | Summary Ribosomal DNA (rDNA) repeats of the plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne arenaria are heterogeneous in size and appear to contain 5S rRNA gene sequences. Moreover, in a recA
+ bacterial host, plasmid clones of a 9 kb rDNA repeat show deletion events within a 2 kb intergenic spacer (IGS), between 28S and 5S DNA sequences. These deletions appear to result from a reduction in the number of tandem 129 by repeats in the IGS. The loss of such repeats might explain how rDNA length heterogeneity, observed in the Meloidogyne genome, could have arisen. Each 129 by repeat also contains three copies of an 8 by subrepeat, which has sequence similarity to an element found in the IGS repeats of some plant rDNAs. |
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Keywords: | Meloidogyne rDNA Intergenic spacer Repeated DNA sequences Plasmid deletion/recombination Plant rDNA |
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